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Dr. Eesley the director of the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Franchising at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is also an assistant professor of Entrepreneurship & Strategy. His courses focus on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Corporate Strategy.
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Scott Bishop is a marketing strategist whose clients include both Startups and Fortune 100 corporations. He helps small companies get big, and big companies become relevant. He’s written marketing guidebooks for the Financial Times Press and been featured on the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Magazine and the Associated Press.

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Interface - The Web School

Interface was founded to help generate more great technologists across the region who understand the web development process from idea phase to implementation and ongoing enhancement. All in an effort to eliminate the talent shortage Midwest corporations and startups currently grapple with day-in and day-out.

AMPT Health, Gear 5

Open Nebraska

Open Nebraska is a civic innovation organization serving the citizens of the great state of Nebraska. Founded in 2012, our mission is to solve community problems through civic application development, open data advocacy, and tech education. We aim to drive innovation and community engagement in Nebraska by making local information more accessible to the public.

StraightShot

ActionCard

Action Card is a mobile location review app. It was built to make life a lot easier for your reviewers, speeding up the compliance inspection process by eliminating paper, double-entry and making reviews easier to conduct. The web-based centralization of information creates more transparency and accountability to standards reviews.

bootquery

DliveryPal

DliveryPal is a service that enables restaurants to offer food delivery option. Customers, through our mobile application, can place orders from their favorite restaurants. The delivery process is handled by DliveryPal.

CardioSys

MultiMechanics

MultiMechanics helps companies innovate faster, cheaper, and better. It drastically reduces time and costs of product development, by allowing engineers to test their designs virtually, even before the first prototype is ever made. Its initial focus is modeling and simulation tools for advanced materials. Its software was first released at the end of 2012, and has quickly gained customers across multiple countries.

Pickit

Pickit is a new promotional platform that gives you access to the latest deals from local businesses, while also connecting you with non-profits in your community. Every time you use a Pickit deal you not only save money on your purchase, but you can also donate back to two non-profit organizations in your community! Pickit lets your everyday purchases be a vote for a better community. Download the Pickit app now!

Feya Candles

Feya Candles (started in 2014) is an extention of Hallow Candle Co. (began 2010) where every candle purchased provides a meal for someone in need, we deliver all food raised on our first giving trip in June 2014 with local non-profit Jacob's Well. We partner with non-profit groups to give food and aid around the World to communities in need!

3 teams from Interface Web School

Interface was founded to help generate more great technologists across the region who understand the web development process from idea phase to implementation and ongoing enhancement. With Interface, you can register for courses and tracks that fit with your personal and professional aspirations.

Conservation Fusion

International NGO. Our mission is: Educating to Build and Strengthen our World. Established in September 2010, We are directly connecting the Omaha community with communities living in biodiversity hotspots to raise awareness about our future on a global scale. CF takes education to a new level by creating diverse partnerships and experiences that engage individuals, inspiring them to identify their talents and strengths. Within a team atmosphere, CF delivers a bold new way to tackle conservation and education by empowering and educating to create choice, not charity and dependence. At CF, we are witnessing positive change tracked with real-time data, collected and applied.

Nebraska Global Health Ventures

Hello Holiday

PeggyBank.com

PeggyBank™ transfers LEGACY MEDIA (photos, slides, negatives, home movies, videotapes and audio recordings) to a DIGITAL FORMAT that can be VIEWED and SHARED via the Internet or electronic devices (computers, televisions, etc.). Instead of boxes of photos, film, tapes or DVD’s degrading over time you get easy to find, easy to share PERMANENT memories in a crisp, clear format that won’t deteriorate over time.

Vitru

Finally, a platform that takes a 21st century approach to solving the problems businesses and job seekers face trying to connect. Through scientific assessments, a matching algorithm, and beautiful portfolios, Vitru takes a bold new approach to connecting businesses and job seekers to their next opportunity.

MTRL Design

Flywheel

Flywheel is a premium WordPress hosting company built specifically for web designers, freelancers and creative agencies. Easily launch and manage your clients’ websites without the technical mumbo-jumbo of traditional hosts.

Bloom

Bloom.com’s mission is that you will NEVER buy the wrong beauty products again. Through “social beauty” they are able to harness the wisdom and experiences of thousands of women, to provide an unbiased, trusted source for all things beauty. Using open minded, honest feedback from thousands of women, Bloom.com helps women find the products and information to achieve their most beautiful self.

The organizers are independent licensees of the 1 Million Cups trade name and are not affiliated with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (“Kauffman”) or Kauffman Laboratories for Enterprise Creation, Inc. (“Kauffman Labs”). All information, views, opinions and commentaries presented herein are those of the organizers and not those of Kauffman or Kauffman Labs.

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